Monica Gaughan
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Phone: 480-636-0120
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450 UCENT Box 3720 411 N Central Ave Phoenix, AZ 85004
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Mail code: 3720Campus: Dtphx
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Monica Gaughan grew up in Connecticut, raised by a father who was a college textbook editor and a mother who made more money cleaning houses than she could in any other pink collar job. Gaughan went to the New College of Florida where she earned a bachelor's (1989) in political science; her honors thesis was on whistleblowing about organizational wrongdoing. After working for a couple of years at a community mental health clinic, she earned a Master of Public Administration degree from the Maxwell School, Syracuse University (1992); one of her criteria in choosing the program was not having to write another thesis. After working a couple of more years as a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Gaughan earned a master's (1997) and doctorate (1999) in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her master's thesis examined determinants of American women's marital timing, and her dissertation demonstrated gender differences in peer effects on adolescent binge drinking. Her current research focuses on knowledge workers, with a particular interest in structures of inequality that persist in global scientific institutions.
Gaughan has held academic appointments at Oglethorpe University (1999-2001), Georgia Institute of Technology (2002-2006), and the University of Georgia (2006-2013). She loves to travel near and far, has too many pets, and considers no day complete without reading fiction.
- Ph.D. Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 1999
- M.A. Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 1997
- M.P.A. Health Policy, Syracuse University1992
- B.A. Political Science, New College of Florida 1989
The short version is that Monica Gaughan's research focuses on the training, distribution, and migration of scientists and engineers in the global knowledge system. She has a particular interest in the U.S. science system and its relationship to other science systems. Within this U.S. system, she is interested in how policies and practices affect scientific career development, with a particular focus on differences by race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status and national origin.
To elaborate, social dimensions of health and illness are inextricably linked to social stratification in educational and scientific systems; these systems reflect social, economic, political and cultural processes of great complexity. National and international policies to reduce disparities in health outcomes include attention to diversification of the workforce. This diversification includes attention to multiple bases of diversity in a population, with the general idea that a nation’s health and scientific workforce should mirror its population for maximum effect. At the tertiary level, scientific education is a necessary condition for entry into careers in health, engineering, technology and science. Inequities in access to education and its benefits create systems of stratification in which some groups benefit differentially. These systems of inequality operate within nations and among nations in a global migration system of the highly educated. Since higher education and immigration are by definition creatures of national government policies, national and supra-national policies attempt to address these inequities. Therefore, she is interested in how policies affect entry, persistence, and success in science.
Pfirman, Stephanie and Monica Gaughan. 2025. Polar Plasticity: Impact of COVID-19 on the US Polar Research Community. Sustainability 17(4): 1737. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17041737
Gaughan, Monica. 2023. Intersectional Dynamics and Academic Advancement in the United States. The Journal of Higher Education 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.2023.2192162
Bozeman, Barry, and Monica Gaughan. 2023. The ‘Zoomification’of Collaboration: How Timely Technology has Affected Academic Research. Minerva 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-023-09500-4
Fox, Mary Frank and Monica Gaughan. 2021. Gender, Family and Caregiving Leaves, and Advancement in Academic Science: Effects across the Life Course. Sustainability 13(12): 6820. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13126820
Jung, Jiwon, Barry Bozeman and Monica Gaughan. 2020. Fear in Bureaucracy: Comparing Public and Private Sector Workers’ Expectations of Punishment. Administration & Society 52(2): 233-264. https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399718783647
Jayawardhana, Jayani, Haley E. Bolton, and Monica Gaughan. 2019. The Association between School Tobacco Control Policies and Youth Smoking Behavior. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine 26(6): 658-664. 10.1007/s12529-019-09825-z
Qingqing Wang, Jiwon Jung, Barry Bozeman, and Monica Gaughan. 2019. Collaboration cosmopolitanism: What are the effects on the ‘overlooked majority’ of scientists and engineers? Higher Education 78(6): 1011-1034. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-019-00385-5
Gaughan, Monica and Barry Bozeman. 2018. Institutionalized Inequity in the United States:The Case of Postdoctoral Researchers. Science and Public Policy 46(3): 358-368. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scy063
Jung, Jiwon, Barry Bozeman and Monica Gaughan. 2018. Fear in Bureaucracy: Comparing Public and Private Sector Workers’ Expectations of Punishment. Administration & Society 52(2): 233-264. https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399718783647
Gaughan, Monica, Julia Melkers and Eric Welch. 2017. Differential Social Network Effects on Scholarly Productivity: An Intersectional Analysis. Science, Technology & Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243917735900
Jung, Jiwon, Barry Bozeman and Monica Gaughan. 2017. Impact of Cosmopolitan Research Collaboration on Job Satisfaction. Research Policy 46(10): 1863-1872. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2017.09.003
Gaughan, Monica and Barry Bozeman. 2016. Using the prisms of gender and rank to interpret research collaboration power dynamics. Social Studies of Science 46(4):536-558. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312716652249
Bozeman, Barry, Monica Gaughan, Jan Youtie, Catherine P. Slade and Heather Rimes. 2016. Research collaboration experiences, good and bad: Dispatches from the front lines. Science and Public Policy 43(2).226-244. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scv035
Gaughan, Monica and Barry Bozeman. 2015. Daring to lead: Bringing full diversity to academic science and engineering. Issues in Science and Technology Winter:27-31.
Su, Xuhong and Monica Gaughan. 2014. Inclusion of women academics in American universities: Analysis on women’s status reports. Higher Education Policy 27:529-544.
Bozeman, Barry, Daniel Fay and Monica Gaughan. 2013. Power to Do…What? Department Heads’ Power and Strategic Priorities. Research in Higher Education 1-26.
Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation FAIN-1824260 (E. Wentz, PI, Arizona State University), ASU ADVANCE. 2018 – 2023. Award: $2,999,743.
Courses
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| PAF 302 | Public Service Research Method |
| PAF 112 | Public Serv & Ameri Democracy |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| PAF 493 | Honors Thesis |
| PAF 400 | Senior Capstone Project |
| PAF 112 | Public Serv & Ameri Democracy |
| PAF 400 | Senior Capstone Project |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| PAF 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| PAF 493 | Honors Thesis |
| PAF 400 | Senior Capstone Project |
| PAF 400 | Senior Capstone Project |
| PAF 112 | Public Serv & Ameri Democracy |
| PAF 400 | Senior Capstone Project |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| PAF 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| PAF 493 | Honors Thesis |
| PAF 400 | Senior Capstone Project |
| PAF 400 | Senior Capstone Project |
| PAF 301 | Applied Statistics |
| PAF 301 | Applied Statistics |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| PAF 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| PAF 790 | Reading and Conference |
| PAF 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| PAF 400 | Senior Capstone Project |
| PAF 112 | Identity Service America Democ |
2023 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| PAF 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| PAF 400 | Senior Capstone Project |
| PAF 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| PAF 302 | Public Service Research Method |
| PAF 302 | Public Service Research Method |
2022 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| PAF 484 | Internship |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 592 | Research |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| PAF 400 | Senior Capstone Project |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 592 | Research |
- SHESC, Postdoctoral Director (2014 - Present)
- Center for Organization Research and Design, Arizona State University, Affiliate (2013 - 2015)
- Committee on the Status of Women in Sociology, American Sociological Association, Committee Chair (2013 - 2015)
- Committee on the Status of Women in Sociology, American Sociological Association, Committee Member (2013 - 2015)
- Personnel Committee, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Member (2013 - 2015)
- Evaluation and Program Planning, Editorial Board (2013 - 2015)
- Research Evaluation, Editorial Board (2006 - 2014)
- Personnel Committee, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Member (2013 - 2014)